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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Gregory McLean <gregm@comstar.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-prerelease shmget woes.
Date: 02 Jan 2001 22:38:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n1d9wu49.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101011429380.1416-100000@tweetie.comstar.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101011429380.1416-100000@tweetie.comstar.net>

Gregory McLean <gregm@comstar.net> writes:
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
> 0

That's your problem. Your limit for overall shm pages is zero. So you
cannot allocate any shm segments.

echo 2000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall

and check /etc/sysctl.conf or wherever your system stores kernel
parameters to restore on boot.

Greetings
                Christoph

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-02 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-01 19:06 2.4.0-prerelease shmget woes Gregory McLean
2001-01-01 19:34 ` Gregory McLean
2001-01-02 21:38   ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-01-05 18:53     ` Gregory McLean

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